Gen Bipin Rawat. Pic/PTI

Political initiative must go "hand-in-hand" with military operations in Jammu and Kashmir to bring peace, Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat said yesterday, and favoured ramping up military offensive to pile up heat on Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism in the state. "The political initiative and all the other initiatives must go simultaneously hand-in-hand and only if all of us function in synergy, we can bring lasting peace in Kashmir. It has to be a politico-military approach that we have to adopt," the Army chief said.